And that's my problem with his bunting. Actually, it's more his attitude that pisses me off. It's the same stupid attitude that fuels his headfirst slides into first base. He feels like he knows better than anyone else, so he won't listen to Gardy when he's told to sacrifice, just like he won't listen to Gardy and stay on his feet going into first base.

The base running is what drives me nuts. I knew that Punto would be too far off first in that final playoff game. There was no doubt in my mind that he would be overly aggressive and I was just hoping the Yankees would blow the play somehow.

I'm much less ok with it if it means Gardy gets his way and Cabrera is back at second. Or Crede is back.

The thing that bothers me the most about Punto is that he still will not play within his abilities. He'll get in stretches where he's making solid contact but he's taking an upper cut swing and the results are normally routine fly balls. When he's hitting a high percentage of line drives and taking a lot of pitches, he actually has some offensive value.

Sliding into first, trying to bunt for a hit instead of sacrifice when asked, and using the crowd noise over the advice of his base coach are other examples of trying to do too much. Between that and having the manager constantly fawning over him while deriding the same mistakes in others really just top it off for me.